Singing The Blues With Connee Boswell (SEPIA 1077)

Tracklisting:

Singing The Blues With Connee Boswell

1. Begin The Beguine 2:37	LISTEN
2. Believe It Beloved 2:16	LISTEN
3. I Know What It Means To Be Lonesome 2:52	LISTEN
4. Someone Stole My Darlin’ 3:20	LISTEN
5. My Little Nest Of Heavenly Blue 3:06	LISTEN
6. Where There’s Smoke There’s Fire 3:07	LISTEN
7. It Made Me Happy When You Made Me Cry 2:36	LISTEN
8. Singin’ The Blues 2:56	LISTEN
9. With One Red Rose 2:38	LISTEN
10. Main Street On Saturday Night 2:40	LISTEN
11. You Need Some Lovin’ 2:24	LISTEN
12. I’m Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter 2:39	LISTEN
13. I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues 2:19	LISTEN
14. The Heebie Jeebie Blues 2:15	LISTEN
15. The Right Kind Of Man 2:24	LISTEN
16. Sage Brush Sadie 2:20	LISTEN
17. Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home 2:33	LISTEN
18. Call Me Darling 2:11	LISTEN
19. The Philadelphia Waltz 2:43	LISTEN
20. T-E-N-N-E-S-S-E-E 2:45	LISTEN
21. If I Give My Heart To You 2:52	LISTEN
22. How Important Can It Be? 2:49	LISTEN
23. Fill My Heart With Happiness 2:44	LISTEN
24. Our Lady Of The Highway 2:47	LISTEN
25. Don’t Believe Everyone’s Your Friend 2:51	LISTEN
26. Mind If I Tag Along 2:38	LISTEN
27. I Compare You 2:38	LISTEN
28. No Other One 2:45	LISTEN

Title: Singing The Blues With Connee Boswell
Artist: Connee Boswell
Catalogue No: SEPIA 1077
Barcode: 5055122110774
Release Date: 4 September 2006

Ella Fitzgerald once said that her biggest musical influence was Connee Boswell: “I tried to sing like her all the time because everything she did made sense musically”.
The subject of Ella’s admiration was born Connie Boswell in New Orleans on December 3, 1907. At the age of three she contracted polio which left her paralyzed from the waist down. Music was a prominent family feature with sisters Martha and Helvetia (Vet) capable instrumentalists as well as vocalists. For her part Connee played saxophone, cello, piano and guitar. In addition she write most of the musical arrangements and vocal routines when the sisters formed a trio. The Boswell Sisters soon became very popular on records, and appearing on radio and films. When her sisters decided to retire, Connee continued as a solo performer. Her career flourished though the thirties and forties - she had numerous hit records, guested on the nation’s top radio shows and in 1944 starred in her own radio show.

By the early fifties she had changed her name to Connee from Connie because it was easier for her to sign autographs quickly without having to dot the “i” and her radio work was being superseded by TV engagements. She continued to make records many of which charted and are featured, along with others of the period, on this CD collection. Connee was at her best with a “jazzy” accompaniment and Singin’ The Blues is a good example with its lazy instrumental interlude while the tempo is well “up” for It Made Me Happy When You Made Me Cry”. An oldie I’m Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter allows the listener a chance to hear Connee’s wonderful Southern accent in a brief verbal moment at the beginning.

Many of the recordings here are appearing on CD for the first time and bear out Ella Fitzgerald’s comments while listening to the stylish singing voice of Connee Boswell.

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